As a Penguin who has worked in the non-profit sector - I have had the opposite experience. An entire senior management team made of women was entirely incapable of holding itself to account, it held online meeting after meeting about 'common goals' and spoke at great length about how cooperative and person centred they were. It was like being in the band on the Titanic if the band had no idea the boat was going down..
The Senior Leadership Team awarded themselves a 10% pay rise over 2 years but refused any additional wage reviews, they brought in a racism consultant then fired her when they found out she didn't plan to write how great the business was. Almost every man in management was hounded out by a senior leadership member who came in with both an anti-male agenda and a seemingly a personality disorder of some sort. I watched her shout at someone in training because they'd dared to question something she'd decided was a safeguarding issue (but probably wasn't). She implemented terrible decisions, provided terrible training and tanked the profits by losing multiple contracts before leaving for 'mental health reasons' - which she did have but she should've been gone long before that. She timed her leaving moments before the boat started to sink meaning she recently took a promotion elsewhere in the non-profit industry. She'll do the same thing there - and I'll watch with interest.
Why am I writing this? I'm a casual Penguin observer - I think companies are best when they're mixed and companies comprised of one sex in management and/or the workforce miss the benefits of the other. The failure to hold that manager (and the CEO) to account was a result of a desire for harmony and a weird delusional camaraderie and groupthink buoyed up with notions of feminism and a lack of a accountability. The CEO was changed and now most of the overpaid senior leadership team have been whittled down and the charity is functioning again. That new CEO is also a woman but she has been clear to avoid the constant appeasement meetings and has sought to appoint a mixed management team as well as bringing in mechanisms by which people can be held to account by those beneath them without being undermined and bullied.
Men and women can be different types of toxic, but toxic nevertheless. That isn't a critique of feminism and it isn't a toxic rant - it is simply an observation of how the world works.
